Hypodermic spoon.



T. H. FORSTER.

HYPDBRMI SPOON.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNI: 1l 1912.

1,081,901 Patented Dec. 16, 19.13.

TE OFFICE.

THOMAS H. FORSTER, 0F CINCINNATI, OHIO.

HYPODERMIC SPOON.

T0 all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, TiIoMAs H. Fons'rnn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cincinnati, county of Hamilton, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hypodermic Spoons, of which the `following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a device to be used in the preparation and administration of medicaments by hy oderniic injection. To prepare a solution or hypodermic injection, a spoon or other small utensil is required to hold the medicament and menstruum. The custom among physicians at thepresent time is to employ any small utensil conveniently at hand; and, when the solution is complete and ready for use, it is drawn into the hypodermic syringe, an assistant, previously instructed, holding the spoon or other utensil at an angle offering the least resistance to the passage of the solution into the syringe. This system, however, is very imperfect, inconvenient and troublesome; the spoon or other utensil may be large and unwieldy, not wholly aseptic and sanitary; or the assistant, through carelessness or otherwise may spill the solution and thus necessitate the preparation of more. For these reasons and others which will readily occur to any physician, the present system is inconvenient, inaccurate and dangerous, and in emergency cases especially is apt to entail consequences of a serious nature.

The objects of my invention are, first, to overcome the difficulties and annoyances above mentioned by providing a hypodermic spoon or utensil of convenient size and shape and attached to a suitable base or support to maintain the sanne in proper position while the syringe is being charged; second, to provide such a spoon which will afford complete absorption of the solution by the syringe; third, to provide means in said spoon rigidly to hold the needle of the syringe in proper position during the absorption of the solution.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed .Tune 1, 1912.

Patented Dec. 16, 1913.

serial No. 701,109.

In the drawings: .Figure l is a plan view of my new spoon; Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same.

The letter A indicates the base of my new hypodermic spoon; said base is provided with suitable standards B, which form a support for the spoon C. Any suitable nurnber of such standards may be provided, and I prefer to make the same of such relative lengths that the spoon C will be supported at a slight angle of inclination, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The base is preferably made of relatively greater size and weight with reference to the spoon, so that the upright position of the device when resting on said base may not easily be disturbed. Between the base and the under side of the spoon is a space in which a burning match, taper, or small lamp may he inserted to warm the menstruum. At, or near, the lowest part of the cavity of the spoon, is a depression, or reservoir, E, from which a channel, or groove, D, extends to the edge of the spoon. The shape of the s oon C may be such as is most desirable to t e user or manufacturer, the oval form of the ordinary spoon, however, as shown in the drawings, being very suitable and convenient. In constructing my new hypodermic spoon any suitable materials may be used, glass, porcelain and some metals, however, being particularly adaptable.

In use, the solution is placed in the spoon C; the hypodermic needle is then placed in the channel D, the eye of said needle resting in the reservoir E, into which the solution flows as the syringe is charged. It will thus be seen that all of the solution con tained in the spoon may be taken up by the needle as it collects in the resevoir, and that, during the operation, the needle will be held in proper position by reason of the fact that it rests in the channel D. Thus the size of the injection administered to the patient may be accurately gaged, as the entire dosage prepared is taken up by the syringe, no portion thereof being left in the spoon, as is usually the case where an ordinary spoon or utensil is employed for the pur- POSE.;

Having thus described my invention, adapted to receive a hypodermic needle, and what I claim as new and desire to secure by e reservoir in the cavity of said spoon in 10 Letters Patent, is: which the eye of said needle is adapted t0 A device of the Character" specified comlie when said needle is in said channel.

prising a spoon, a support for said spoon, THOMAS H. FORSTER.

said support being provided With a space Witnesses:

under said spoon for the introduction of a G. W. SGHNEPF,

heating agent, a channel in said spoon i GUs'iAv SCHNEPF.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of '.Patems, Washington, D. C. 

